With this Covid situation we are in right now I’m not really cooking because I don’t really want to fire up a load of coal to cook something for just the 2 of us but we also need to use the food we have so the time (and the weather) was right to cook some beef ribs in the drum
I bought a small rack of ribs from a local butcher a few weeks ago thinking they might take 2-3 hours….
First to the prep.
I really didn’t think about trimming them, I took a tiny bit of fat off the edge but the rest looked very good
I rubbed them with Firefly Kansas Sweet & Smoky BBQ Rub before I lit the drum.
Drum lit and up to 250F the ribs went in, along with an inserted Meater probe to watch the temp through the cook.
After a couple of hours, the meat had hit a stall and the temp was increasing incredibly slowly…I waited another hour and then wrapped in butcher paper and waited again.
I was expecting the cook to go very quickly from there but the meat had other ideas.
3 hours later it had finally hit temp and felt very tender. I opened the package up to release the steam before wrapping up again to rest for a bit.
And the juice was oooozy too.
After resting it was time to cut, sauce, and eat.
We added some Blues Hog Raspberry Chipotle sauce…this has become our absolute favourite sauce at the moment, sweet with a nice kick of hit for a moment before it mellows very quickly.
Juicy, tender, and full of flavour!
